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Abortion was decriminalised by South Korea’s Constitutional Court in 2019, but no new law has since been passed, leaving late-term procedures in a legal grey area and potentially subject to criminal charges. — Pexels pic

Seoul doctor charged with murder after nine-month abortion, exposing South Korea’s legal vacuum

Buddhist monks make merit during Wesak Day celebrations at Wat Dhammakaya Buddhist temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, May 11, 2025. — AFP pic

Phuket monk guns down fellow cleric in temple bathroom over loud phone, alleged bullying

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) and German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt have a conversation before the start of a session at the Bundestag in Berlin June 24, 2025. — AFP pic

Germany backs Israel after Iran war in first high-level visit

A man holds portraits of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) and the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, during the funeral procession of military commanders and scientists killed during Israeli strikes, in Tehran June 28, 2025. — AFP pic

Iran judiciary says Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison killed 71

A drone view shows buildings and roads are half submerged in floodwaters after heavy rainfalls, in Rongjiang county, Guizhou province, China June 24, 2025. — China Daily pic via Reuters

300mm and counting: China issues yellow alert as torrential downpours loom

US Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) speaks to the media, after a Senate GOP lunch, as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass US President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax Bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington June 28, 2025. — Reuters pic

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful Bill’ clears first US Senate hurdle after GOP drama

Taiwan’s Vice-President Hsiao Bi-khim waved off China’s alleged intimidation plot during her 2024 visit to Prague, calling the CCP’s actions ‘unlawful’ and vowing not to be silenced. — Reuters pic

Taiwan VP Hsiao Bi-khim says she won’t be silenced after China allegedly ‘planned car crash’ during 2024 Prague visit

UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium ‘in a matter of months,’ despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News said yesterday. — AFP pic

Iran could again enrich uranium ‘in matter of months’, says IAEA chief

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of loved ones killed during overnight Israeli strikes, on the grounds of Al-Shifa hospital in the central Gaza Strip June 28, 2025. — AFP pic

Gaza civil defence says Israeli forces kill 37, including children

A woman protects herself from the sun with a fan during the first heatwave of the summer in Seville June 28, 2025. — AFP pic

Europe swelters: First heatwave of summer pushes thermometers past 45C

The wreckage of cars lies on the remains of the Shambat Bridge, which connects Omdurman and Bahri, June 24, 2025 in the Sudanese capital region. Clashes between Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war since April 2023, have intensified in the country’s west and south in recent weeks. — AFP pic

US slaps Sudan with sanctions over chemical attacks — here’s what we know

People take part in the Budapest Pride parade in Budapest downtown on June 28, 2025, as the capital’s municipality organised this march by the LGBTQ community, celebrating freedom, in a move to circumvent a law that allows police to ban LGBTQ marches. — AFP pic

‘Love can’t be banned’: Budapest Pride defies Orban clampdown with record 200,000 crowd

File picture of US President Donald Trump speaking as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves following a meeting in the White House Washington, April 7, 2025. The US leader has likened Netanyahu’s legal troubles to his own before he took office for his second term. — Reuters pic

Trump calls Netanyahu a ‘war hero’, slams corruption trial as ‘witch hunt’

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media, after the US Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C. June 27, 2025. — Reuters pic

Deportations, firings and immigration: Legal clashes mount at US Supreme Court over Trump’s post-return executive orders

Hamas militants carry the coffin of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025. — Reuters pic

‘It doesn’t look good’: Battling to survive, Hamas faces revolt from clans and waning Iranian support

Khamenei is 86 and suffers the effects of a 1981 assassination attempt in Tehran which paralysed his right arm, a disability he has never made any attempt to hide. — AFP pic

Iran’s Khamenei resurfaces to claim ‘victory’ over Israel, but doubts grow over his authority and role in war decisions